#Slow Days Fast Company

[artandchocolate]

"Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hair-dos. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.

Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

[sjnjournal]

― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

[lazysummerwords]

But I was still sure there was a grandiose golden sunset somewhere in the sky.

[joan-didion-occultist]

“So who was Joan in 1974? One of the biggest writers in America. A celebrity writer in the way that Norman Mailer was, or Tom Wolfe, or Hunter S. Thompson. Still more remarkable, that other writers, i.e., male writers, allowed her to be a writer who was also a woman, rather than insisting she be a capital-W Woman Writer. No modifier on writer, no flies on Joan.” - Lili Anolik, Joan Didion and Eve Babitz Shared an Unlikely, Uneasy Friendship—One That Shaped Their Worlds and Work Forever

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/joan-didion-letters-eve-babitz

[midchelle]

Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

[natreads]

Slow days, fast company by Eve Babitz - 3 stars ⭐

Vignette-like stories, sharp wit and fascinating observations. It kind of has a plot, but not really. I found the way the author - who I assume is the narrator - depicts herself and tries to describe herself was very different, which prompts an interesting conversation about trying to write yourself from within yourself as opposed to from outside. I unfortunately didn't love the writing, which really surprised me. Nevermind the actual stories - I knew what I was getting into, and some of it really captured me while others left me a little restless - but the WRITING. I've heard so much about it that I expected to be blown away, and don't get me wrong, it's not BAD. It's obviously very good, but not in a way that left me speechless. Still I found it addictive enough to want to keep reading Babitz, especially as I now have a newfound fascination with reading about LA, since I cannot picture that town at all for the life of me.

[technicolourbabe]

“I was dancing, dancing through the crowded room and absolutely unable to stop smiling. Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth, and there I was, in heaven, only in Bakersfield.”

— Eve Babitz, from Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

[thereturnofsidsid03]

My Favourite Books ❤︎

In a growny-uppy way, so no Percy Jackson, John Green, Harry Potter, Mortal Instruments, Anna and the French Kiss, Hunger Games, Divergent, Goosebumps, The Clique etc.

The Girls by Emma Cline

"Emma Cline’s first novel, “The Girls” (Random House), is a song of innocence and experience—in ways that she has intended, and perhaps in ways that she has not. It’s a story of corruption and abuse, set in 1969, in which a bored and groundless California teen-ager joins a Manson-like cult, with bloody, Manson-like results."- James Wood for The New Yorker

I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres

"The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s... Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell-all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras."- Booktopia

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

"Valley of the Dolls is a zipper-ripper that has been called trashy, tawdry, glitzy, lusty, sordid and seamy — and that's just the beginning of its appeal. Susann was accused of "typing on a cash register," and Truman Capote called her "a truck driver in drag." She threw a drink at Johnny Carson, a punch at a critic and a chair at a wrestler, before jumping into the ring. All of it sold books."- Nancy Bachrach for NPR

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

"Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it." - Goodreads

Black Swans by Eve Babitz

"She may be self-absorbed and occasionally insensitive, but to a certain extent, she is aware of her failings and brave enough to expose them to her reader wholesale along with her effervescent party commentary... Reading Eve Babitz is like eating cake for breakfast, like having a gossip over brunch with your best friend. Her short stories consider the pros and cons of black lacquered swimming pools, and let us peer into the dining room of the Bel Air Hotel where Babitz — tripping on LSD — and her boyfriend are so drunk they can barely stay in their seats. "- Lauren Sazaren for Los Angeles Review of Books

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

"Malibu Rising is a bloody great book. The kind of book you'll wish you could go back in time and experience for the first time all over again. It's got all the elements of a crackin' good novel - a page-turning plot, fully fleshed out, flawed, relatable characters, GOSSIP AND DRAMA, and little lessons you'll take with you long after you've read the final page." - Keryn Donnelly for Mamamia

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz

"Imagine the incisive wit of Virginia Woolf mingling with the listlessness of Françoise Sagan—this is the work of Eve Babitz, an ingenue and poet. Her lyrical sensuality is both sexy and cerebral…this book sizzles with hedonistic abandon, sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll…it is the clarity of her language and her painterly style that cement her place in the pantheon of American literature." -Sarah Nasar,  British Airways High Life Magazine

I am certain that there is many I have forgotten but these are The Unforgettables.

[mothermass]

i was being so european coded this morning

[yourgirlrey]

i'm currently reading slow days, fast company by eve babitz and it's giving so lana del rey

[esotericliz]

Slow days,fast company, Eve Babitz

"On April 15, 1976, I read in the L.A. Times that Phil Ochs was cremated. (I hadn’t even known he was sick.) And it turns out he hung himself. In the news story it said he’d complained to a friend that he was depressed and “couldn’t write.” He’d been complaining for years that he could no longer write. I thought he wrote such beautiful melodies you could swim in them. And now he’s done such violence to himself, putting a rope around his neck, hanging himself, thirty-five years old. New York City style, black and white. No accident. Taking no chances."

[jln1287]

Watching the sky turn dark

[thetowntrash]

day n night in miami

[neptunemuse]

eve babitz, no one burned brighter than she in the 70s L.A. scene. A playlist inspired by her novel: slow days, fast company

[joan-didion-occultist]

“L.A. didn't invent eternity. Forest Lawn is just an example of eternity carried to its logical conclusion. I love L.A. because it does things like that.” - Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz.

Just in the process of making Joan Didion/Eve Babitz/70s LA my entire personality. Wish me a quick recovery.

[katereads]

The chapter in Slow Days, Fast Company where she talks about how crazy the first rain of the season makes Californians? Hilarious and accurate.